| Ice PlantThe Ice Plant is a publisher of fine illustrated books and other printed matter, founded in 2006 by Tricia Gabriel and based in Los Angeles. It specializes in small-print-run artist's publications, collaborating closely with artists on all aspects of production, from concept to design to tangible object. The Ice Plant also produces the popular 5 YEAR DIARY in conjunction with Shopsin's General Store.
Exclusive North American Trade Distribution: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Toll-free 1 800 338 2665 155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10013 Tel: (212) 627-1999 | Fax: (212) 627-9484 EMAIL: orders@dapinc.com INFO: D.A.P. Sales Rep DirectoryTITLE INDEX | | | Ron Jude: Emmett
Jude's latest book project, Emmett, brings new life to a selection of his own early photographs, made in the early 1980s in central Idaho. Enhanced by special-effects filters and cheap telephoto lenses, the pictures include hazy scenes of a summertime drag race, a forest across changing seasons, midnight horror films on TV and a Nordic-looking teenager who appears as a specter from the artist's past. Edited here nearly 30 years after its making, this experimental body of work acquires unexpected nuance and humor, and has the serendipitous qualities of a dream--memories reorganized into a fictionalized narrative, imagery suffused with both an unsettling melancholy and the glow of youthful reverie. Related conceptually to and residing thematically between his two previous books--Alpine Star and Other Nature--Emmett achieves an aesthetic inspired by equal parts Motörhead and Jean-Paul Sartre.
|  | U.S. LIST PRICE: U.S. $30.00 CANADIAN PRICE: CAN $36 ISBN: 9780982365328 FORMAT: Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color / 9 b&w. PUBLISHER: The Ice Plant DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLICATION DATE: 10/31/2010 | Forthcoming AVAILABILITY: Awaiting stock | |
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| Mike Slack: Pyramids
Mike Slack’s Pyramids builds on the striking Polaroid aesthetic of his previous books, Ok Ok Ok (2002) and Scorpio (2006), rounding out a trilogy of stand-alone volumes that together contain 123 pictures. This collection records everyday details of what could be a recent past or a very near future--a dust storm in the desert, simple geometry, stairways and windows, schoolchildren on a field trip--quietly dramatic scenes energized by a sense of anticipation rather than nostalgia. Presented as physical artifacts of fictitious events to be deciphered by the viewer, the pictures also document the travels, observations and graphic fixations of the photographer, centering on a set of three identical early 1970s office buildings (in Slack's hometown of Indianapolis), from which the book takes its title.
|  | U.S. LIST PRICE: U.S. $30.00 CANADIAN PRICE: CAN $36 ISBN: 9780982365311 FORMAT: Clth, 7 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 41 color. PUBLISHER: The Ice Plant DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLICATION DATE: 11/30/2009 | Active AVAILABILITY: In stock | |
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